Awkwardness Is A More Real Disadvantage Than

Whoever Plays Deep Must Necessarily Lose His Money Or His Character.

If You Can Once Engage People's Pride, Love, Pity, Ambition (or Whatever Is Their Prevailing Passion) On Your Side, You Need Not Fear What Their Reason Can Do Against You.

Second-rate Knowledge, And Middling Talents, Carry A Man Farther At Courts, And In The Busy Part Of The World, Than Superior Knowledge And Shining Parts.

The Nation Looked Upon Him As A Deserter, And He Shrunk Into Insignificancy And An Earldom.

We Are, In Truth, More Than Half What We Are By Imitation.